Racists hiding behind computer keyboards
Re: “Perhaps a little Buddhist restraint is in order...”, Have Your Say, December 14.
I quite enjoy the Pedant’s letters to this column; they are unfailingly polite and intelligent, and put my witticisms in the shade. Should I have offended him, then that is regrettable since he is usually worthy of respect.
I will not, however, extend such niceties or diplomatic etiquette to the undeserving creatures who treat the normal readership here with utter contempt, with repeated hate, ordure and demonising of minorities from behind the safety of their keyboards.
The (in my opinion) language I use to slap them down is contextually good enough for the BBC, Republican senators, and UK broadsheet newspapers to use. So it’s good enough for me. Besides, I would remind the readers of this paper that this comes in response to the vitriolic in-
vective sicked up by these racist paper tigers who stain this column with their presence. This naturally extends to pusillanimous alter-egos like the ghastly HHB, recently emerged again from under his stone.
If we continue to normalise the pernicious currency of hate groups and their openly racist fellow travellers, we risk another descent into the abyss. Decent people deserve much better than this.
Dr Frank
Bangkok
